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...three-year sentence for his 1949 conviction, jumped bail, was recaptured and sentenced to an additional four years. In all, he spent five years and one month in prison. With Thompson's ashes already at Arlington awaiting burial this week, the Army asked U.S. Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach to rule on the problem...
...page letter to Deputy Secretary of Defense Cyrus Vance, Katzenbach found Thompson's prison record "disqualifying" under the regulation. Katzenbach's ruling was cheered by veterans' organizations and hissed by word warriors of the left. Said Florida's Democratic Representative Charles Bennett, who had taken the House floor to protest Thompson's burial at Arlington: "Any other decision would have been an affront to the noble young men who have given so much of their lives to our country." Tass, the Soviet news agency, condemned the decision as "a mockery of an American patriot." Thompson...
...convicted felons. Georgia's Deputy Assistant Attorney General E. Freeman Leverett admitted that he was "ashamed" of the South's history of voter discrimination, adding: "But Congress cannot, in order to appease a mob in the streets, invoke unconstitutional means to achieve a constitutional end." Meanwhile, Defendant Katzenbach, who had been accompanied to court by Solicitor General Thurgood Marshall and Assistant Attorney General John Doar, sat quietly awaiting his turn...
...came next day. Katzenbach made his point swiftly. "The position of the United States Government in this case can be very simply stated," he began. "Section 2 of the 15th Amendment gives to Congress the right to enforce Section 1 by 'appropriate legislation.' We contend this act was appropriate legislation. It is well adapted, and it operates fairly and reasonably to achieve an objective which is within the power of Congress to achieve." He pointed out that Southern states, where racial segregation is the rule, had thus long violated the 14th Amendment, yet now sought...
...court is expected to hand down a ruling in ample time for the South's spring primaries. Meanwhile, one of the most succinct arguments in support of the law came not from Katzenbach but from Associate Justice Hugo Black, a native of Alabama. Said Black from the bench: "It's politically known to everybody in the country that these tests have been used to deny people their right to vote...